DOCSLIB.ORG

Sunday 22 September 2013 the Ultimate Boutique Literary Festival

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Sunday 22 September 2013 the Ultimate Boutique Literary Festival T The Blenheim Palace Literary H E Festival at Woodstock B L E Wednesday 18 – Sunday 22 N H September 2013 E I M P Box Office 01993 812291 A L (11am – 2.30pm) A C blenheimpalaceliteraryfestival.com E L I T E R A R Y F E S T I V A L A T W O O D S T O C K 2 0 1 3 Wednesday 18 – Sunday 22 September 2013 The Ultimate Boutique Literary Festival Featuring Sir John Major • Lucy Worsley • Ben Okri • Ruth Rendell • Arne Dahl Rick Stein • Gillian Shephard • Simon Thurley • Max Hastings • Beverley Craven Courtyard of The Feathers Hotel, Woodstock DJ Taylor • Gill Hornby • Simon Jenkins • Peter Snow • Helen Dunmore The Great Hall at Blenheim Palace Hotel and Apartments, Knightsbridge The World’s closest hotel to Harrods “9/10” The Telegraph on Outlaw’s at The Capital Award of Excellence from the UK Tea Guild 2013 A truly English hotel- 5 AA Red Stars The Capital Hotel is a proud sponsor of Blenheim Palace Literary Festival 22-24 Basil St, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1AT capitalhotel.co.uk [email protected] +44(0)20 7589 5171 Festival Director’s Welcome Welcome to the 2013 Orchestra of St John will perform his favourite Blenheim Palace pieces of music; and we have a performance of Literary Festival at A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 90 minutes. Woodstock. Once again, Novelists this year include Ruth Rendell, Arne we have assembled Dahl, DJ Taylor, Gill Hornby, William leading writers and Nicholson and Helen Dunmore, and there is a public figures from the series of sessions on great explorers of the fields of politics, history, world that includes a talk by Robin Hanbury- food and drink, architecture and design, Tenison. While from the world of history we music, literature and society. have Max Hastings; Lucy Worsley and Peter We are delighted to welcome a former Snow. prime minister, Sir John Major, who We are greatly honoured that our Royal Patron promises an intriguing talk on his new book HRH The Duke of Gloucester will be joining us about his father and the history of music again for the festival dinner. We very much hall. We also have a retrospective on his appreciate his continued support and that of predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, featuring a The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough who former cabinet minister, Baroness Gillian give so much of their time and encouragement Shephard. each year. One of our best-loved food writers and We have a record number of sponsors, donors broadcasters Rick Stein will be returning to and partners without whom the festival could his roots in West Oxfordshire to reflect on never be staged. We are indebted to them all his life. but I would particularly like to thank HSBC and Performance will again play a big part in the English Heritage. festival. Singer Beverly Craven talks about Finally, I look forward to welcoming you all to her life and performs some of her songs; Blenheim Palace and Woodstock between Gareth Davies, prinicipal flute with the September 18 and 22 for five days of talks, London Symphony Orchestra, discusses life debate, dinners and entertainment at Britain’s on the road with the LSO and plays for us; ultimate boutique literary festival. novelist and poet Ben Okri talks about his life in a ‘private passions’ event at which the SALLY DUNSMORE Festival Director 1 HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO Royal Patron of The Festival Magnificent historic buildings, and their beautiful gardens, have been a source of inspiration for novelists and writers over many centuries. Blenheim Palace – its lakes and parkland – with the adjoining historic town of Woodstock, now form a serene backdrop for a literary festival devoted to lively discussion and debate on the great issues of the age. The festival is a celebration of the powers that the written word, and the cultivation of the fine arts, exert upon the imagination of us all. RICHARD 2 Blenheim Palace When war broke out in Europe, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a military genius, was chosen as leader of the allied troops. During 1702 and 1703 Marlborough defended Holland from invasion from the French. In 1704 a decisive battle took place near a small village called Blindheim, Blenheim as it is now, where Marlborough won a great allied victory over the forces of Louis X1V. In reward, Queen Anne granted Marlborough the Royal Manor of Woodstock and signified that she would build him there a house to be called Blenheim. Sir John Vanbrugh was appointed to design Blenheim Palace and Capability Brown landscaped the park, creating the great lake over which Vanbrugh’s Grand Bridge now stands. Blenheim Palace is one of the largest finest private houses in England, a world heritage site set in 2100 acres of parkland. Its stunning Formal Gardens include the Italian Garden, the Water Terraces, Rose Garden, Arboretum and Maze. It is home to the 11th Duke of Marlborough and was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill who was born in 1874. Guided tours of the palace run throughout most of the season and ‘Blenheim Palace: The Untold Story’ tells the story of the last 300 years through the eyes of the servants. General Information Opening times: the Palace, Park and Formal Gardens open daily until 3rd November. From 6th November to 13th December, the Palace and Formal Gardens are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The Park is open all year except on Christmas Day. The Park opens at 9.00am: the Formal Gardens at 10.00am and The Palace at 10.30am. Last entry to The Park and Palace is at 4.45pm. The Palace closes at 5.30pm and the Park and Gardens close at 6.00pm. www.blenheimpalace.com Tickets for Festival events on Friday, 20th September and Sunday, 22nd September at Blenheim Palace include free entry to the grounds and gardens on the day of the ticket (price normally £13). 3 Festival Patrons, Sponsors and Partners Royal Patron We should like to thank the following for their most generous support of the festival: HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO Partners Sponsors Patrons His Grace The Duke of Marlborough The Rt. Hon David Cameron MP Lord Fellowes Ben Okri Felicity Bryan David Freeman Professor Martin Kemp Ian and Carol Sellars Festival Hotel London Eileen and Munir Majid Festival Hotel Blenheim Palace Literary Festival Chairman Bruce Thew Deputy Chairman Jill Dunsmore HM Government of Gibraltar Festival Director Sally Dunsmore Sponsors Sponsor of the festival green rooms Regional Media Sponsor Special Adviser Tony Byrne Administrator Louise Croft Cultural Partner Box Office Manager Tricia Simms Publicity Eleanor Hutchinson, Four Communications (0)20 3023 9075 (media enquiries only) Ian and Carol Sellars Debates Co-ordinator Mike Farley Green Room Manager Rachel Byrne Eileen and Munir Majid Graphic Design Stafford & Stafford Sir Martin Smith and Website and Content Editor Derek Holmes Dr Elise Becket Smith Website Design Gibson Strategy Lynne and David Levin 4 Festival Bookseller Associates City Audio Visual The Bear Hotel Holt Hotel The festival on-site bookseller is La Galleria Restaurant Blenheim Palace Retail who provide The Marlborough School speakers’ books at all festival venues. Methodist Church Oxfordshire Museum Festival Online Bookseller St Mary Magdalene Church Save the Children Bookshop The Blenheim Palace Literary Festival at Wake up to Woodstock Woodstock is very pleased that Woodstock Bookshop amazon.co.uk are the official online partner for the festival. Access the festival’s Amazon bookshop by following the links on the website www.amazon.co.uk We should also like to thank Prestige Publishing Partner all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the festival. Programme printed by Oxuniprint, the printing division of Front cover photo and all Blenheim images by kind Oxford University Press permission of Blenheim Palace Woodstock and other photos by kind permission of The festival is produced by Iconic Programmes Ltd KT Bruce www.ktbrucephotography.com Registered office 69-71 Oxford Street, Woodstock, All other photos individually credited where known Oxon OX20 1TJ Company number 07180906 The Long Library, Blenheim Palace 5 HSBC and the Blenheim Palace Literary Festival at Woodstock At HSBC we are very pleased to be sponsoring The Blenheim Palace Literary Festival for a second year, extending our support of literature as a way of stimulating international debate and dialogue. This September the festival focuses on the success of women as novelists, politicians, historians and travellers; and on the role of courage and conviction in politics, business and public life. These topics are aligned to HSBC’s core values and our commitment to diversity. The festival dinner, in the beautiful Orangery at Blenheim, with guest speaker Lucy Worsley, allows us to provide HSBC customers and prospective clients with a memorable evening. We look forward to welcoming our guests to Blenheim, along with the thousands of festival visitors to the Palace and Woodstock, for five days of engaging talks, lectures and debates. ANTONIO SIMOES Head of UK, Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management Europe and Deputy CEO HSBC Bank plc 6 FESTIVAL OPENING LUNCH WEDNESDAY 18th SEPTEMBER 104 Clive Aslet Nancy Lancaster and Ditchley Park: A Literary Lunch SOLD OUT Ditchley Park / 12 noon / £95 including champagne reception and two-course lunch with wine and coffee Dine amid the splendour of one of Oxfordshire’s best-known country homes while hearing from a renowned writer about how it was transformed by American Nancy Lancaster. The event starts with a walk through The Velvet Room, The Green Drawing Room, The Saloon, The Library, and The Churchill and Lake view terraces followed by a two-course lunch with wine in the Great Hall.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Bibliography19802017v2.Pdf
    A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE, PUBLISHED 1980–2017 An amalgamation of annual bibliographies compiled by R.J. Chamberlaine-Brothers and published in Warwickshire History since 1980, with additions from readers. Please send details of any corrections or omissions to [email protected] The earlier material in this list was compiled from the holdings of the Warwickshire County Record Office (WCRO). Warwickshire Library and Information Service (WLIS) have supplied us with information about additions to their Local Studies material from 2013. We are very grateful to WLIS for their help, especially Ms. L. Essex and her colleagues. Please visit the WLIS local studies web pages for more detailed information about the variety of sources held: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/localstudies A separate page at the end of this list gives the history of the Library collection, parts of which are over 100 years old. Copies of most of these published works are available at WCRO or through the WLIS. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust also holds a substantial local history library searchable at http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/. The unpublished typescripts listed below are available at WCRO. A ABBOTT, Dorothea: Librarian in the Land Army. Privately published by the author, 1984. 70pp. Illus. ABBOTT, John: Exploring Stratford-upon-Avon: Historical Strolls Around the Town. Sigma Leisure, 1997. ACKROYD, Michael J.M.: A Guide and History of the Church of Saint Editha, Amington. Privately published by the author, 2007. 91pp. Illus. ADAMS, A.F.: see RYLATT, M., and A.F. Adams: A Harvest of History. The Life and Work of J.B.
    [Show full text]
  • Antarctica 14Th February – 3Rd March 2019
    An Ultimate Invitation: Antarctica 14th February – 3rd March 2019 Hosted by Nick and Iris Van Gruisen With Guest Lecturers Dr Huw Lewis Jones, Kari Herbert and Nigel and Shane Winser. The Ultimate Travel Company Escorted Tours Map count Introduction There is nothing on this earth that can quite compare with the awesome beauty of Antarctica, and few of us have not dreamed of following Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen to these frozen wastelands at the bottom of the world. So why not turn those dreams into reality and join us on a very special journey to the Great White Continent? Here, in this world of perpetual snow and ice below the 60th parallel, some of the world’s most enchanting creatures survive to bring colour and sound to an otherwise harsh and silent environment. Beaches resound to the raucous bellows of elephant, fur and leopard seals, Humpback and Minke whales glide effortlessly through the still, near-frozen waters, and colonies of Adelie, Chinstrap, Gentoo and King Penguin congregate in huge numbers on the vast snow plains. The RCGS Resolute is the ideal vessel for such an expedition with her unsurpassed ice classification, her excellent manoeuvrability and large indoor and outdoor viewing platforms. She is also extremely comfortable with all cabins with en suite facilities and excellent public areas. She has 146 berths, but we will be limiting numbers to around 90 to ensure even more personal service and space. Lastly, we have been fortunate enough to negotiate an excellent rate so the expedition offers excellent value, especially the Single Supplement. Zodiacs are used for the daily on-shore excursions and for the more adventurous the Kayak is also available (limited numbers) and maybe even a chance to spend a night on the ice-shelf.
    [Show full text]
  • Katharine Worth Collection MS 5531
    University Museums and Special Collections Service Katharine Worth Collection MS 5531 Production design material for the 1955 Waiting for Godot set by Peter Snow - including a model of the set; theatre memorabilia, correspondence, notes of Katharine Worth; Beckett related VHS and cassette tapes. The Collection covers the year’s 20th century. The physical extent of the collection is 5 boxes and 5 framed prints. MS 5531 A Research files 1950s-1990s MS 5531 A/1 Folder of research entitled Beckett Festival Dublin 1991 1991 Includes press cutting, press release, letters relating to the festival 1 folder Katharine Worth gave a lecture Beckett's Ghost, with C.V. for Katharine Worth and Julian Curry MS 5531 A/2 Folders of research entitled Beckett and Music 1980s-1995 Includes hand written notes and typed notes made by Katharine Worth and correspondence relating to her Samuel Beckett and Music article 2 folders MS 5531 A/3 Folders of research entitled Cascando 1981-1984 Includes letter from David Warrilow, annotated script for Cascando, 5 black and white photographs of a production, correspondence relating to the production of Cascando by Katharine Worth and David Clark of the University of London Audio-Visual Centre and some handwritten notes 2 folders MS 5531 A/4 Folders relating to Company 1989-1991 Includes Mise en Scene by Pierre Chabert for his stage adaptation of Compagnie [in French], correspondence relating to Page 1 of 13 University Museums and Special Collections Service a proposed production of Company by Katharine Worth and Iambic
    [Show full text]
  • Historian Dan Snow
    PAGE 78 C M Y K DAILY MAIL WeeKEND ‘I’m obsessed with preparing for the apocalypse. I don’t think we can survive a large solar flare’ York, then I’d finish the day looking at DEFINITE the stars from a raft floating 1,000 miles east of Newfoundland. The happiest moment you will cherish forever… The day I left a summer job in the Canadian Rocky Mountains ARTICLE when I was 18. To re-enter civilisation, I had to run along tiny trails, shouting We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly out to ward off grizzly bears, but I didn’t probing questions – and only accept have a trouble on my mind. The saddest time that shook your THE definitive answer. This week: world… In 2013, my wife lost our child six months into her pregnancy. broadcaster and historian Dan Snow The unfulfilled ambition that contin- The prized possession you value above The pet hate that makes your ues to haunt you… To read War And all others… My books. I have about hackles rise... Betraying Peace. I have got to get that sorted! 1,000 and each one evokes memories of children by discouraging The philosophy that underpins your what life was like when I read them. them from aiming high. life… Life is best organised as a series The biggest regret you wish you could The temptation you The unlikely interest that The crime you would commit knowing of adventures from a secure base. amend… Not taking up a rowing scholar- wish you could resist… engages your curiosity… I’m you could get away with it… I’d assassi- The order of service at your funeral… ship at University of California, Berkeley, Salt and vinegar crisps.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Capability' Brown
    ‘Capability’ Brown & The Landscapes of Middle England Introduction (Room ) Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was born in in the Northumbrian hamlet of Kirkharle to a family of yeoman-farmers. The local landowner, Sir William Loraine, granted him his first gardening job at Kirkharle Hall in . Demonstrating his enduring capacity for attracting aristocratic patrons, by the time he was twenty-five Viscount Cobham had promoted him to the position of Head Gardener at Stowe. Brown then secured a number of lucrative commissions in the Midlands: Newnham Paddox, Great Packington, Charlecote Park (Room ) and Warwick Castle in Warwickshire, Croome Court in Worcestershire (Room ), Weston Park in Staffordshire (Room ) and Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. The English landscape designer Humphry Repton later commented that this rapid success was attributable to a ‘natural quickness of perception and his habitual correctness of observation’. On November Brown married Bridget Wayet. They had a daughter and three sons: Bridget, Lancelot, William and John. And in Brown set himself up as architect and landscape consultant in Hammersmith, west of London, beginning a relentlessly demanding career that would span thirty years and encompass over estates. In , coinciding directly with his newly elevated position of Royal Gardener to George , Brown embarked on several illustrious commissions, including Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire. He then took on as business partner the successful builder-architect Henry Holland the Younger. Two years later, in , Holland married Brown’s daughter Bridget, thus cementing the relationship between the two families. John Keyse Sherwin, after Nathaniel Dance, Lancelot Brown (Prof Tim Mowl) As the fashion for landscapes designed in ‘the Park way’ increased in of under-gardeners.
    [Show full text]
  • Jimmie Durham United States, 1940 Lives and Works in Berlin
    kurimanzutto jimmie durham United States, 1940 lives and works in Berlin education & residencies 2016 Artist Residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques, Cassis, France. 2007 Artist Residency at the Atelier Calder, Saché, France. grants & awards 2019 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded by the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. 2017 Matronato alla carriera awarded by the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE), Italy. Robert Rauschenberg Award 2017 awarded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, United States. 2016 Goslar Kaiserring awarded by the Verein zur Förderung moderner Kunst Goslar, Germany. solo exhibitions 2019 Do you say I am lying?(Acha que minto?). Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon; Culturgest, Porto, Portugal. The beneficial catastrophe of art. Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy. 2018 Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada. The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves). Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France. Labyrinth. Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan. 2017 Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; kurimanzutto Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Evidence.Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany. Jimmie Durham: God’s Children, God’s Poem. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Glass (with Jone Kvie). Galerie Michel Rein, Paris. 2016 Jimmie Durham. Sound and Silliness. Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome. 2015 Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism. Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Jimmie Durham. Here at the Center. n.b.k., Berlin. Various Items and Complaints. Serpentine Gallery, London. 2014 Traces and Shiny Evidence. Parasol Unit, London.
    [Show full text]
  • Compton Verney Annual Review 2014
    [Type text] Compton Verney Annual Review 2014 1 Item zItem Item dfedadfa From the Chair Compton Verney affects each visitor in a unique way. Every experience is different as the landscape and the art inspires, energises and relaxes, allowing each of us to have our own experience with art – to pause from our everyday lives, and reflect. Compton Verney was created to be an art gallery for everyone. There are no rules here as to what is possible or impossible; accordingly, we have tried to create a place that can speak to everyone, whatever their experience or knowledge of art. I am reminded of this so often when speaking to visitors who have come to Compton Verney. Just as every artist reflects their own personality, their own experience and their own time in history, so each visitor brings their own life to the art and the landscape – and takes away something different. Family groups are particularly interesting: a child can see things in entirely different ways, and trigger childrens’ perspectives ideas among the adults. Speaking to one family this year, I met an eight-year old girl fascinated by the saints in the Northern European collection, whose parents now found themselves discussing biblical stories and iconography. It was certainly not what they had expected their child to be interested in, and brought back memories and ideas from their own lives. It was an interesting, questioning conversation, but also filled with energy and laughter. I am so thrilled that this family took away a new, shared experience, and have rediscovered an appetite to include more art in their lives.
    [Show full text]
  • Pvn Dec 2002
    PPEEMMBBUURRYY VVIILLLLAAGGEE NNEEWWSS Issue 112 December 2002 A special souvenir edition celebrating events in Pembury during the Queen’s Golden Jubilee year CONTENTS The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Events 3 Introducing New Head at Kent College 31 Golden Jubilee 1950s Supper Dance 4-9 Pembury Short Mat Bowls Club 31 Musical Picnic on the Green 11-14 Snippets 33/35 A Golden Jubilee Bouquet! 15 Improve Your House, But . 35 Golden Jubilee Village Fete Brownies at the Fire Station 36 on the Green 17/18 Trick or Threat? 36 Pembury Dragons 19 Pembury Environmental Matters 37 Pembury School Ofsted Visit 19 Introducing a Parish Councillor – The Little Path . 37 Nicola Kibble 20 My Plot 39 Pembury Library Update 20 Jan’s Garden Views 40 Pembury Achieves Broadband! 21 Hospice News 41 Pembury Footpath Walkers 21 Action on Waste Campaign 41 A Brave Son – Scott Rumary 22 Rosie’s Recipe Corner 43 Pembury People – Richard Snow 23 Pembury Cricket Club 44 Your Clerk Reports 24 Community Learning 44 Village Organisations 25 Church Services Over Christmas 45 Pembury Society 26 For Your Diary 47 The Millennium Committee 26 Crime in Pembury 48 Pembury Evening WI 27 Your Representatives 49 Associate Pastor for Pembury Baptist Church 29 Church Times 49 Friends of Pembury Parish Church 29 Village Organisations 51 Cover photograph by Alison Morton Editorial Working Group: Alison Morton (Editor), Nicola Kibble, Leslie Gregory, Rosemary Latter and Ann Owen Please note: The Editor’s decision is final on whether or not to publish any item submitted. The Editor reserves the right to edit (that is to cut, précis, alter, correct grammar and spelling) any item published.
    [Show full text]
  • A Survey of How the BBC's “Flagship Political Current Affairs Program” Reported Genocide and War in Rwanda Between April and July 1994
    Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Volume 6 Issue 2 Article 7 August 2011 Did Newsnight Miss the Story? A Survey of How the BBC's “Flagship Political Current Affairs Program” Reported Genocide and War in Rwanda between April and July 1994 Georgina Holmes Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp Recommended Citation Holmes, Georgina (2011) "Did Newsnight Miss the Story? A Survey of How the BBC's “Flagship Political Current Affairs Program” Reported Genocide and War in Rwanda between April and July 1994," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 6: Iss. 2: Article 7. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol6/iss2/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Did Newsnight Miss the Story? A Survey of How the BBC’s ‘‘Flagship Political Current Affairs Program’’ Reported Genocide and War in Rwanda between April and July 1994 Georgina Holmes King’s College London At the time of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the BBC’s late-night political dis- cussion program Newsnight was one of the few media political spheres within which representatives of the British government, opposition parties, the United Nations, and international non-governmental organizations could comment on British foreign policy. Since 1994 the British media have been charged with fail- ing to report genocide; yet a focus on print media has created a void in under- standing how BBC’s Newsnight covered events.
    [Show full text]
  • Pan-Arabism: Origins and Outcomes of Postcolonial Unions
    Elizabethtown College JayScholar History: Student Scholarship & Creative Work History Spring 2021 Pan-Arabism: Origins and Outcomes of Postcolonial Unions Matthew J. Smith Follow this and additional works at: https://jayscholar.etown.edu/hisstu Part of the Islamic World and Near East History Commons Pan-Arabism: Origins and Outcomes of Postcolonial Unions By Matthew J. Smith This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Discipline in the Department of History and the Elizabethtown College Honors Program May 1, 2021 Smith 1 To my advisors, Dr. W. Brian Newsome and Dr. Oya Dursun-Özkanca, who taught me the craft of the historian and always supported my scholarship, and to my dear friend, Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., whose scholarship sparked my passion to study the Middle East Smith 2 Introduction Saturday, July 19, 1958. On page five of The New York Times, the top headline read, “Iraqi Rebel Figure Says New Regime Will Postpone Merger with Nasser Bloc”. At the end of the article, the Western World got its first glimpse into what occurred in Baghdad five days earlier on July 14, 1958. Richard Hunt, longtime foreign affairs correspondent for the Times and NBC News, reported, “About 3 o’clock in the morning on Monday [July 14], a crowd of soldiers and civilians gathered outside the palace and set it afire. The King, his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Ilah [‘Abd al-Ilah], and the Crown Prince’s mother were driven into a garden by the smoke.”1 Once the rebels breached the garden, a firefight ensued, killing all the members of the family and several of the rebels.
    [Show full text]
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton
    Sir Ernest Shackleton Born close to the village of Kilkea, between Castledermot and Athy, in the south of County Kildare in 1874, Ernest Shackleton is renowned for his courage, his commitment to the welfare of his comrades, and his immense contribution to exploration and geographical discovery. The Shackleton family first came to south Kildare in the early years of the eighteenth century. Ernest’s Quaker forefather, Abraham Shackleton, established a multi-denominational school in the village of Ballitore. This school was to educate such notable figures as Napper Tandy, Edmund Burke, Cardinal Paul Cullen and Shackleton’s great aunt, the Quaker writer, Mary Leadbeater. Apart from their involvement in education, the extended family was also deeply involved in the business and farming life of south Kildare. Having gone to sea as a teenager, Shackleton joined Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition (1901 – 1904) and, in time, was to lead three of his own expeditions to the Antarctic. His Endurance expedition (1914 – 1916) has become known as one of the great epics of human survival. He died in 1922, at South Georgia, on his fourth expedition to the Antarctic, and – on his wife’s instructions – was buried there. Athy Heritage Centre-Museum Athy Heritage Centre-Museum was established to celebrate the history of the area. It houses material and audio-visual programmes that chronicle the ancient, medieval and post 16th century lives and achievements of the people of the town and its hinterland. Athy Heritage Centre is home to the only permanent exhibition anywhere devoted to Ernest Shackleton. Highlights include an original sledge and harness from his Antarctic expeditions, a 15- foot model of Shackleton’s ship Endurance, an exhibition of unique Shackleton family photographs and an audio-visual display featuring Frank Hurley’s film footage of the Endurance expedition.
    [Show full text]
  • Bay Tree House, Compton Verney Bay
    BAY TREE HOUSE, COMPTON VERNEY CHARTERED SURVEYORS BAY TREE HOUSE THE OLD WALLED GARDEN COMPTON VERNEY WARWICKWARWICKSHIRESHIRE CV35 9HJ Situated 2 miles from Kineton, 3 miles from Wellesbourne, 9 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Leamington Spa, 13 miles from Banbury and 7 miles from Junction 12 of the M40 Motorway STANDING THE IN GROUNDS OF COMPTON VERNEY MANSION, A SUPERB RESIDENCE WITH SPACIOUS BRIGHT ACCOMMODATION AND LANDSCAPED WALLED GARDENS Entrance Hall, Guest WC, Six Reception Rooms, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, Utility, Four Double Bedrooms, Two Bathrooms, Studio/Office, Summerhouse, Landscaped mature gardens. Viewing through: Kineton office Tel: 01926 640498 [email protected] Compton Verney was formerly the ancestral home of the Bay Tree House forms one of several individual detached Willoughby de Broke family and includes the Grade I Listed substantial properties constructed in the former walled Mansion House, adjoining Coach House, Lakes and gardens of the Compton Verney Mansion. Un derstood to Parkland with open rural views. have been constructed in 1987, the property has been maintained, improved and extended to an excellent The Old Walled Garden lies just to the West of this 18th standard. Century Mansion, accessed by a separate driveway. Within the former walled gardens are several detached properties, The gardens and grounds are of particular note . understood to have been constructed at the same time in Landscaped and presented to a high standard, the gardens this private, exclusive res idential developement. Nearby, include mature trees and walled on all sides with electric the village of Kineton lies two miles to the south-east and double gates to the drive.
    [Show full text]